James Harden is the most talented player and the most fun to watch

DO WE HAVE TO KEEP READING THIS CONSTANT CRAP ABOUT LOS ANGELES?

Put Harden in a high school game and he'd score maybe eight points. They actually call travels in high school. Harden only exists and thrives in the NBA because he has mastered how to travel efficiently in a league that doesn't enforce its own rules. Beyond that, he's terrible at basketball.

Harden had one bad playoff series and now he is a quitter ?

SMH

ballin ballin ballin like i'm james harden...

Boo Pig wrote:

60pt. triple-doubles:

Harden: 1

Jordan: 0

James: 0

Jabbar: 0

NBA Championships:

Harden: 0

Jordan: 6

James: 3

Jabbar: 6

NBA championships without Pippen:

Harden 0

Jordan 0

Jordan was much more athletic and could intimidate opponents and the refs.

Harden has a more accurate shot and is a helluva lot smarter. (jordan couldn't make free throws)

again he excells wrote:

Boo Pig wrote:

60pt. triple-doubles:

Harden: 1

Jordan: 0

James: 0

Jabbar: 0

NBA Championships:

Harden: 0

Jordan: 6

James: 3

Jabbar: 6

NBA championships without Pippen:

Harden 0

Jordan 0

Jordan was much more athletic and could intimidate opponents and the refs.

Harden has a more accurate shot and is a helluva lot smarter. (jordan couldn't make free throws)

Jordan couldn't make free throws? He's an 83% shooter, not much worse than Harden at 85%

coach wrote:

again he excells wrote:

NBA championships without Pippen:

Harden 0

Jordan 0

Jordan was much more athletic and could intimidate opponents and the refs.

Harden has a more accurate shot and is a helluva lot smarter. (jordan couldn't make free throws)

Jordan couldn't make free throws? He's an 83% shooter, not much worse than Harden at 85%

Jordan 82.5% Harden 84.4%

Jordan's ability to shoot free throws is well below what you would expect from someone with gifted accuracy. Certainly not GOAT worthy. He was even less accurate in the playoffs.

Its a significant difference in accuracy between Harden and Jordan ( the refs can't bail you out when you are on the free throw line)

He plays no defense, and quit on his team in last years playoffs.

82.5 and 84.5 are not significantly different.

That pu55y low life thug punk lost 2 games in a row for his team last month by loosing his cool and getting a bunch of offensive fouls. He is everything wrong with basketball.

Jetagimath wrote:

Harden had one bad playoff series and now he is a quitter ?

SMH

Which "one" series was that?

There was the Rockets final game against the Spurs last year.

Or how about his final game in 2015 against the Warriors, where he set an NBA playoff record of 13 turnovers and went 2 - 11?

Sifl &Ollie Fan wrote:

Put Harden in a high school game and he'd score maybe eight points. They actually call travels in high school. Harden only exists and thrives in the NBA because he has mastered how to travel efficiently in a league that doesn't enforce its own rules. Beyond that, he's terrible at basketball.

At least apply your argument to every NBA player. Why limit it just to Harden? The NBA is fun. Nobody wants to watch whatever game of basketball you want them to be playing. Harden is super talented and exciting to watch. Period.

Harden would score 1000, easy, in a high school game.

coach wrote:

82.5 and 84.5 are not significantly different.

For stats covering a lifetime, its very significant.

For stats comparing the most accurate shooters its very significant.

coach wrote:

82.5 and 84.5 are not significantly different.

Well Coach, its the difference between being the 47th best versus, the good but not great, 92nd best.

If you need someone to take a free throw for technical, you pick your 47th best not your 92nd best.

"Jordan, you sit down, Harden, you take the shots"

Sifl &Ollie Fan wrote:

Put Harden in a high school game and he'd score maybe eight points. They actually call travels in high school. Harden only exists and thrives in the NBA because he has mastered how to travel efficiently in a league that doesn't enforce its own rules. Beyond that, he's terrible at basketball.

Harden won 2 state championships in high school and was the best player in L.A.

Podunk U. wrote:

Sifl &Ollie Fan wrote:

Put Harden in a high school game and he'd score maybe eight points. They actually call travels in high school. Harden only exists and thrives in the NBA because he has mastered how to travel efficiently in a league that doesn't enforce its own rules. Beyond that, he's terrible at basketball.

Harden won 2 state championships in high school and was the best player in L.A.

And Michael Jordan?

Well he didn't even make the team when he was in 10th grade. He had to play Jr. varsity.

Maybe it was because he couldn't make free throws?

The game is much different than during Jordan's time. During Jordan's play time, basketball was basically one on one playground ball.

Players play a smarter game with team play required to win. There are more highly skilled imports playing. The level is much higher. The star players still get the calls but nothing like they did in Jordan's time. The nb a doesn't allow the muggings like they used to.

A ball hog that can't pass plays losing ball.

As great as MJ was, I felt that he left a mess after he retired. All of those undersized guards from the mid 90s to early 2000s grew up watching him and they were ball hogging, carrying one on one clones that turned a lot of fans off. AI, Marbury, Van Exel, Steve Francis, God Shamgod, Harold Minor, etc.

The numbers say that the NBA's current popularity is as high as ever and I feel that getting further and further away from the MJ era helps. It seems like more young kids these days want to shoot lights out like Klay and Steph or have an all around game like LeBron, Draymond and Durant.

JO Coach wrote:

As great as MJ was, I felt that he left a mess after he retired. All of those undersized guards from the mid 90s to early 2000s grew up watching him and they were ball hogging, carrying one on one clones that turned a lot of fans off. AI, Marbury, Van Exel, Steve Francis, God Shamgod, Harold Minor, etc.

The numbers say that the NBA's current popularity is as high as ever and I feel that getting further and further away from the MJ era helps. It seems like more young kids these days want to shoot lights out like Klay and Steph or have an all around game like LeBron, Draymond and Durant.

Exactly and its a much better game.

This team ball is even reflected when today's greats are interviewed. They always give credit to teammates. It wasn't like that as much in Jordan's time.